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Lie After Lie at GOP Convention

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Does Anyone Care that Media Say Otherwise?
Carlos Watson Guilty of Fraud, U.S. Jury Finds
SPJ Honors Tucker’s Reports on Black Women, Crime
Hyperlocal D.C. Startup Has No Black Journalists
Heat Wave Is Also a Racial Justice Story
Now You Can Watch Tyler Perry Ad Infinitum
Exiled Editor Threatened, Suspects Cuban Gov’t

Short Takes: National Association of Hispanic Journalists; exoneration of Black sailors at Port Chicago; Lalo de Almeida, Carlos Ernesto Martínez, John Otis and Frances Robles; FAMU president’s resignation; fired Wall Street Journal Hong Kong reporter; José Rubén Zamora; disappearance of Burkina Faso columnist; Rwanda vote and press freedom; Lou Dobbs.

‘Press Freedom in Black-Run Countries’ Set Aug. 1

Homepage photo: Florida delegates dance at Republican National Convention. (Credit: Ricky Carioti/Washington Post)

Updated July 19

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Delegates cheer Monday on the opening day of the Republican National Convention at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee. (Credit: Ricky Carioti/Washington Post)

Does Anyone Care that Media Say Otherwise?

You’re not alone if you’ve wondered why Donald Trump and his MAGA admirers and former rivals are so comfortable repeating lie after lie to an international audience during the Republican National Convention, despite the investments by the news media in fact-checking.

It could be that the speakers just don’t care, especially when the audience hears what it wants to, rejecting notions to the contrary. That’s doubly true when white grievance and fears of demographic shifts are involved.

The real story of the 2024 election may well be not what the candidates are saying and doing, but what’s happened to the electorate — and to the media.

Charles F. Whitaker (pictured), dean of the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University, made the point in January at a Journal-isms Roundtable titled “Dictator on ‘Day One’:  ‘How Journalists Can Counter the Growing Threat of Authoritarianism.’ ”

The dean pointed to a survey released in May by the Medill Local News Initiative, based on a sweeping, in-depth survey of 1,004 Chicago-area residents, whose authors described it as “one of the most comprehensive examinations ever of news consumption habits in Chicagoland.”

Whitaker said, “We did a survey of Chicago area students aged 15 to 20 and found that over 70 percent of them said they do not watch any form or consume any form of news,” and that “their news diet has a very well-worn pattern of TikTok videos and things that are not necessarily related to civics and the functioning of the democracy.” Journalists should be asking, “How does one get through?” the dean said.

He put his finger on what might be the biggest problem of all:

“The American public is woefully ignorant about democracy and how our government functions. And we in the media tend to operate on this level that presumes that they are all understanding of concepts like democracy, authoritarianism, demagoguery, but the reality is those are really, really abstract concepts to most of the American public.

“And the people who are absolutely familiar with and aware of those concepts we kind of already have. The other issue that we have to confront and we haven’t really talked about here is that no matter how well we attempt to connect those dots . . . the reality is also [that] more and more the American public is avoiding news.

“They are not seeing anything. It doesn’t matter how well we do it. They are not buying what we’re selling.

“They are not consuming it. They . . . feel embattled, they don’t like the rancor in politics or they don’t think that it has a direct effect on their lives. I wonder to what extent that is not just the fact that that information is not being presented to people as much as it is also that people are completely tuning out on that information when it is presented to them.”

Oliver Darcy reported for CNN that “the first night of the RNC averaged 18 million viewers. On digital platforms, numbers have also traveled upward, with the major events sending spikes of traffic to news organizations.”

But Darcy also wrote, “On night three of the RNC, CNN and Fox News continued airing misleading and lie-filled speeches in their entirety, often with little-to-no on-air pushback. Over on MSNBC, the network opted not to carry many of the speeches, instead prioritizing countering the falsehoods being promoted.” (Mediaite noted that CNN’s Daniel Dale did on-air fact-check)

D’Angelo Gore, Robert Farley, Lori Robertson, Eugene Kiely and Ian Fox wrote Wednesday for FactCheck.org, “On a night when the focus was on safety and unity at the Republican convention, a number of GOP leaders also offered up some misleading and false claims FactCheck has seen before.” They involved crime, unemployment, “prisons being emptied,” the Southern border, energy independence and on and on.

Race and media are part of the picture as well.

Reporting on vice presidential pick J.D. Vance’s Wednesday speech, Jon Allsop of Columbia Journalism Review wrote, “as The Atlantic’s McKay Coppins argued following Vance’s acceptance speech last night, he also seems to have flipped from casting the white working class as complicit in its victimhood, in Hillbilly Elegy, to casting them purely as victims.”

Promoting ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ in 2016, Vance told an interviewer, “The kind of conservative, evangelical Christianity I practiced encourages a cultural paranoia where you don’t trust and want to withdraw from a lot of parts of the world.

“It’s very hard to be a practicing Christian in the 21st century world if you set things up as Everyone is against us. You can’t believe modern science, modern media or modern political institutions because they’re all conspiring against Christians.”

New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow explained Wednesday that the Republicans believe they can enlist just enough people of color to join their grievance narrative to make a difference.

“Republicans . . . seized upon an uncomfortable but (for them) beneficial reality: Racial and ethnic tension extends well beyond the white-nonwhite binary.

“They didn’t have to dial down their zero-sum take on race in America; they simply had to make more people believe that they had a stake in it.”

Fortunately, some journalists, though not enough, are calling out issues of race and the race-baiting.

Christopher Mathias wrote for HuffPost Wednesday under the headline, “He Went To A White Supremacist Conference. He Just Spoke At The RNC. In 2022, Thomas Homan, the head of ICE under Donald Trump, accepted an invitation to speak at a racist event hosted by Nick Fuentes.”

Some right-wing media faulted diversity initiatives for the Trump rally shooting — Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle’s emphasis on hiring more women — but Hazel Trice Edney (pictured) asked via her Trice Edney Wire, “Can you imagine what would have happened to a Black man who showed up at a Donald Trump rally acting ‘suspiciously’ around the metal detectors?

“There is no question that had Crooks been a Black man, he would have been commanded to show identification. Had he not concurred, he would have been wrestled to the ground and likely shot dead or choked to death like D’Vontaye Mitchell, who was killed by hotel security June 30 right there in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where the Republican National Convention is being held this week. . . .” As the GOP convention was preparing to begin, HuffPost felt compelled to write, “GOP Convention To Count On Americans’ Collective Amnesia Of Trump’s First Term.“

The American Civil Liberties Union reminded voters that, “When Donald Trump’s administration left office in 2020, two-thirds of surveyed Americans agreed that Trump had increased racial tensions in the United States.

“The backdrop for that widespread sentiment was the Trump administration’s sustained assault on political, civic, and legal efforts to promote racial justice; Trump’s consistent use of inflammatory racist rhetoric; and his transparent pursuit of a white supremacist agenda rooted in racial grievance.” [PDF]

Katherine Knott added Thursday for Inside Higher Ed, “For America’s colleges and universities and the students they serve, the four years of Donald Trump’s first term as president were fraught, defined by threats to international students, allegations of ‘radical left indoctrination,’ free speech controversies and far-reaching attacks on fundamental institutional values such as diversity.

“Since Trump left office in 2021, universities have continued to grapple with the legacy of his term and the movement it spawned. His four years in office helped to pave the way for the Supreme Court’s decision last summer banning race-conscious admissions.

“A controversial executive order spurred a cascade of state laws banning diversity, equity and inclusion programs and policies. Meanwhile, the rise of MAGA Republicanism spawned supercharged culture wars, entangling campuses and prompting some state officials to get increasingly involved in how public universities are run and what’s taught in classrooms.”

As has been demonstrated, even if voters accept these arguments, it does not mean Trump supporters will acknowledge defeat.

“The narrative that Trump and his allies have crafted is one that rules out any potential loss as illegitimate,” Hayes Brown wrote for MSNBC.

“It’s not even certain that the same issues Republicans hope to campaign on will be at play then. The convention’s theme Monday — ‘Make America Wealthy Once Again’ — already clashed with reality. Despite the dire warnings from speakers throughout the day about the supposed horrors of the Biden economy, inflation has leveled off after its post-pandemic peaks, opening the doors to the Federal Reserve’s potentially cutting interest rates between now and November. And unemployment remains low.

“In these circumstances, some might find it wise to proceed with at least a little caution for fear of jinxing things. But it’s not just a lack of superstition that is undergirding the GOP’s sureness. . . . According to an AP-NORC poll conducted last year, even before this feeling of inevitability manifested, 46% of Republicans already expressed little to no faith that November’s ballots will be counted accurately.”

As for getting people to pay attention again to what the media are reporting, Michael Bolden (pictured) CEO of the American Press Institute, points to a May poll from API and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

About half of Americans, 53%, say they are extremely or very concerned that news organizations will report inaccuracies or misinformation during the election. Some 42% express worry that news outlets will use generative artificial intelligence to create stories, David Bauder reported for the Associated Press.

“One of the things that it showed was that people were engaged with news but weren’t sure they could trust the information. News organizations cannot ignore the importance of building trusted relationships with their communities, whether those communities be virtual or based in a specific place,” Bolden messaged Journal-isms.

“People expect and deserve two-way communication with journalists and news organizations that informs coverage and helps ensure journalists meet the news and information needs of our communities. Anything less falls short of the obligation and opportunity we enjoy through our constitutional protections. Democracy needs us to be part of our communities, to love our communities, to help them flourish. We have to do that work every day, not just during election cycles.”

Carlos Watson appeared on the “Today” show after The New York Times broke a story about an impersonation scandal involving the chief operating officer of Ozy, which Watson co-founded. (Screenshot via Today Show)

Carlos Watson Guilty of Fraud, U.S. Jury Finds

Carlos Watson, a Black onetime MSNBC anchor who drew wider notice when he co-founded a digital media company that attracted an impressive roster of Silicon Valley backers, only to have it fall apart nearly a decade later, was found guilty Tuesday of trying to defraud investors and lenders to promote the start-up venture.

“The jury deliberated for three days after an eight-week trial in which the prosecutors accused Mr. Watson of conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud,” Danielle Kaye reported Tuesday for the New York Times. “Many of the government’s witnesses revealed new details about deception at the company, including an impersonated phone call, fabricated contracts and misleading claims about Ozy’s earnings.

“ ‘Watson knew the company was failing, but he was determined to turn Ozy and himself into the next big thing, and he wasn’t going to let the truth stand in his way,’ Gillian Kassner, a prosecutor, said during closing arguments in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of New York. . . .

“Mr. Watson now faces up to 37 years in prison. . . .

“Lawyers for Mr. Watson and Ozy said they were disappointed in the jury’s verdict and planned to appeal ‘immediately.’ . . .

“Leading up to the trial, a lawyer for Mr. Watson argued that the government’s allegations involved the same ‘puffing and bluffing’ practiced by the founders of BuzzFeed and Vice but that prosecutors had singled out Mr. Watson for punishment because he is a Black man. In April, a judge rejected Mr. Watson’s motion to dismiss the charges on the grounds of discriminatory prosecution. . . . “

Dorothy Tucker: “If you watched it before, this time, tell a girlfriend, daughter, aunt, mother, wife, cousin, any Black woman you love.” (Credit: Screenshot)

SPJ Honors Tucker’s Reports on Black Women, Crime

Dorothy Tucker, investigative reporter for WBBM-TV in Chicago, and immediate past president of the National Association of Black Journalists, is among several winners in the Sigma Delta Chi Awards, presented by the Society of Professional Journalists. She won for “Investigating Injustice: Black Women at Risk.”

Watch the video of the awards here.

Chicago’s WVON-AM rebroadcast on its digital television streaming network one of Tucker’ reports on “the alarming impact of crime on Black women in Chicago” last month. Tucker wrote then on social media, “If you watched it before, this time, tell a girlfriend, daughter, aunt, mother, wife, cousin, any Black woman you love.”

Among other winners: (See announcement for appropriate links)

Cultural Criticism: Melanie McFarland, Salon

Arts, Entertainment and Fashion Journalism: “The Heritage War,” Bill Whitaker, Heather Abbott, LaCrai Mitchell and Craig Crawford, CBS News “60 Minutes”

Radio Feature Reporting: “Coretta Scott: The other ‘King’ of Boston,” Phillip Martin, WGBH Public Radio, Boston

Investigative Podcast: “Letters from Sing Sing,” Dan Slepian and Preeti Varathan, NBC News

Television Feature Reporting, network or syndicated: “The Queen of Tequila,” Staff, “ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis“

Television Documentaries, Network or Syndicated: “On the Brink,” Diane Sawyer, Rachel Scott and staff, IMPACT x Nightline

National or Syndicated Radio Feature Reporting: “Coverage of a proposed UK government plan to deport undocumented migrants to Rwanda,” Lauren Frayer and Fatima Al-Kassab, NPR

Inequalities in Society, Television or Audio: “Shiloh: Our inheritance is washing away,: staff, “ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis“

Crime Reporting, Television or Audio: “Investigating injustice: Black women at risk,” Dorothy Tucker, Elliott Ramos, Carol Thompson and Tim Viste, WBBM-TV, Chicago

Breaking News Photography: “A widow’s grief,” J. Conrad Williams Jr., Newsday

Hyperlocal D.C. Startup Has No Black Journalists

“A group of D.C. journalists who worked at a local news site that was abruptly shuttered by NPR affiliate WAMU earlier this year are launching their own nonprofit devoted to covering community news of Washington,” Elahe Izadi reported Tuesday for The Washington Post.

“They are calling it the 51st — a nod to the District of Columbia’s lack of statehood — and say it will deliver hyperlocal Washington news relevant to District residents.

“Initially, their coverage will focus on topics such as the cost of living in D.C. and how to navigate city services, as well as on accountability reporting.

The project has one obvious omission, however. While the former “Chocolate City” is no longer overwhelmingly Black, Non-Hispanic Blacks or African Americans are still 43.5 percent of the population, yet there are no Black journalists on the staff.

Responding to a question from Journal-isms, the “team” wrote that it recognized the absence as a ‘significant gap.”

“We are committed to rectifying this as soon as we secure sustainable funding, which is one of the reasons it was important to start fundraising before we started publishing,” they wrote.

“Black journalists have already played key roles in crafting our editorial strategy, designing our social media plan, and advising our operations and plans for the future. While they haven’t yet had the personal capacity to officially join us as team members, we’re in early stage conversations in the hopes of bringing them on. (One colleague declined in the Spring but hopes to circle back with us as their schedule clears and our funding solidifies.)

“Our work until now has been entirely volunteer-based, which makes it more difficult to create a newsroom that truly represents the city it serves. With a successful fundraiser, we hope to grow our team very soon, prioritizing building a newsroom that reflects this city, especially native residents and our Black and immigrant communities. Being a worker-led organization means that new team members will have a voice in shaping our coverage and direction as a news organization. For us, this work is just starting.”

As of Thursday, the venture had already raised in excess of $104,000 from more than 1,600 people in its first day, according to its website.

(Credit: Climate Central)

Heat Wave Is Also a Racial Justice Story

“It has long been understood that cities are hotter than areas with more greenspace and less development due to what’s called the urban heat island effect,” Willy Blackmore wrote July 11 for Word In Black. His piece is part of a series the consortium is undertaking, it told readers, “because climate justice is racial justice.”

“Essentially, the concrete, asphalt, brick and cinder block, and other energy-absorbing materials that cities are made from trap and hold heat rather than reflecting or absorbing it and allowing it to dissipate.

“Just think of how a sidewalk or parking lot surface can get so hot that it almost shimmers — such surfaces can be markedly hotter than the air temperature (the number you see on the weather forecast), and when you have a whole city radiating heat back into the air on a hot, hot day, it bumps the temperature up significantly.

“Now, a new study from the non-profit Climate Central shows just how much the heat-island effect contributes to local temps in cities across the country. According to the study, more than 5 million people live in urban areas that can be at least 10 degrees hotter due to the effects of the built environment.

“The study looked at 65 cities, and found that on average the temperature was 8 degrees higher across the board due the urban heat island effect. Out of the top 10 cities with the highest bump in temperatures, seven have significant Black populations: New York, Newark, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Boston, and Baltimore. Miami, a city that historically has had a significant Black population, is also in the top 10.

“The study notes how the history of redlining continues to be felt in terms of hotter temperatures in such neighborhoods. . . .”

Word in Black is a consortium of 10 Black news publishers.

Now You Can Watch Tyler Perry Ad Infinitum

“BET is expanding the reach of its shows from Tyler Perry (pictured),” Rick Porter wrote Tuesday for the Hollywood Reporter.

“The Paramount-owned (for now, at least) outlet is launching two FAST channels that will feature episodes of the prolific Perry’s BET and BET+ series.” FAST is an acronym for “free ad-supported streaming TV.”

“The two channels, straightforwardly titled BET Tyler Perry Drama and BET Tyler Perry Comedy, will feature all of Perry’s BET output on a free streaming platform for the first time.

“The two channels will have some 600 hours’ worth of episodes from Perry’s series Sistas, The Oval, House of Payne, Ruthless, All the Queen’s Men, Zatima, Assisted Living and Bruh. Other series that Perry produced for TBS and OWN before signing a megadeal with BET — including Meet the Browns, The Haves and the Have Nots and For Better or Worse — will join the FAST channels later. . . .”

Exiled Editor Threatened, Suspects Cuban Gov’t

“The independent website El Toque thrived in Cuba during the period of relative openness surrounding the 2016 visit to the island by US president Barack Obama, during which he met with Cuban leader Raúl Castro,” longtime press-freedom advocate Joel Simon wrote July 11 for Columbia Journalism Review. “But rising tensions with the Trump administration, the transfer of power to a new president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, in 2019, the COVID pandemic, and a protest movement that brought thousands to the streets ushered in a wave of repression that forced its entire staff of twenty into exile.

“Now it appears that Cuban repression has followed editor José Jasán Nieves Cárdenas to the United States. On June 21, Nieves, who lives in Miami with his family, received a WhatsApp message from an unknown number. ‘We’ve tried to reach you every which way, but you’ve rejected us,’ the message read. ‘Now we will have to come to you personally, and we know exactly where to find you.’ The message was accompanied by a photo and video showing the exterior of his home.

“Nieves suspects Cuban state security, because he had previously received a slew of menacing messages on his WhatsApp from ‘Mabel’ and ‘Franco,’ which are the names used by the police officials who interrogated him on several occasions when he was still in Cuba. Nieves says that in early July he filed a complaint with the FBI, which handles counterintelligence in the US. (The FBI said that it ‘cannot confirm or deny any particular contact or the potential existence of an investigation.’) He is also going public, in revealing the threat for the first time to CJR.

“Threatening an independent journalist in the United States would represent a serious escalation by Cuban intelligence, if confirmed. . . .”

Short Takes

  • “President Paul Kagame has won 99% of the vote in provisional results from Monday’s presidential election in Rwanda, electoral authorities said, an outcome that was widely expected as the country’s long-time ruler aims to extend his three-decade grip on power,” the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Reporters Without Borders noted before the vote that several candidates were disqualified and called the reelection of Kagame, “who has been in power for 24 years . . . a dire outcome for press freedom given the censorship and targeting of journalists that has permeated his reign. Three journalists have been murdered, two have disappeared, and over thirty media have been suspended since Paul Kagame came to power in 2000, according to RSF’s monitoring. The situation is so dire that the country’s remaining media professionals have either gone into exile or are forced to self-censor. . . .”
  • Television host Lou Dobbs (pictured), who indulged the “birther” movement and whose statements on immigrants in the United States illegally were denounced as irresponsible and untrue, died Thursday. He was 78 years old. “Our issue with Dobbs has never been about ‘advocacy journalism,” then-president Michele Salcedo of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, told Journal-isms in 2010. “Opinion journalism plays a treasured role as watchdog and valuable source of information in a democratic society. But this opinion should ideally be supported by facts. Dobbs has failed in this regard.” Dobbs worked at CNN, and later, Fox.

‘Press Freedom in Black-Run Countries’ Set Aug. 1

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The Journal-isms Roundtable will hold a panel discussion, “Press Freedom in Black-Run Countries,” in Chicago while the National Association of Black Journalists convention takes place in that city.

The Roundtable will not officially be part of the convention; instead it will be hosted at the offices of Chicago Public Media on Thursday, Aug. 1, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Central time. Chicago Public Media offices are on Navy Pier, at 848 East Grand Ave., Chicago, Ill., 60611.

The event is co-hosted by the NABJ Global Journalism Task Force. Those who are not in Chicago may join by Zoom. All are invited. To register for either in-person, Zoom or to watch on Facebook, please email blackruncountries (at) gmail.com.

After Black French journalist Olivier Dubois was held hostage last year for 711 days in Mali, West Africa, the press-freedom group Reporters Without Borders said, “To be a journalist in the Sahel means enduring the growing presence of radical armed groups who do not hesitate to kill reporters or kidnap them and use them as bargaining chips,” and more.

More recently, the rising authoritarianism around the world includes Africa as well as the United States. That most often means finding a way to tamp down, even silence, the press. Haiti’s existential crisis has been extensively reported, less so the state of journalism there and in the rest of the Caribbean.

Discussions about the African diaspora most often do not include press freedom, and journalism sessions in the U.S. about Black people often do not include a global view.

Panelists:

  • Zahra Burton, 18 Degrees North, Jamaica; Global Reporters for the Caribbean – founder and principal, Kingston, Jamaica
  • Muthoki Mumo, Committee to Protect Journalists – Africa program coordinator, based in Nairobi, Kenya
  • Garry Pierre-Pierre, Haitian Times – founder and publisher, Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Nompilo Simanje, International Press Institute — Africa advocacy and partnerships lead, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
  • John Yearwood, Politico – editorial director – diversity and culture; formerly global chair of the Vienna, Austria-based International Press Institute and world editor of the Miami Herald
  • Richard Prince, Journal-isms columnist, moderator

It’s not too early to RSVP to < blackruncountries (at) gmail.com > whether or not you will be at the NABJ convention.

Update:

(Credit: Wallace House/YouTube)

Exiled Haitian journalist, NABJ honoree, joining Roundtable

Roberson Alphonse, this year’s recipient of the Percy Qoboza Award from the National Association of Black Journalists, has agreed to join the special Journal-isms Roundtable Aug. 1 in Chicago on “Press Freedom in Black-Run Countries.” 

“I’m honored by your invitation to join that panel,” Alphonse messaged. Commitment to “ringing the bell on press freedom, democracy in this era of disinformation, populism and the rise of authoritarian regimes is priceless. We have to deal with those issues while our profession is facing [an] existential crisis. We are in surviving mode in Haiti. It’s almost the same for local press here in the US.”

NABJ said, “This award recognizes a foreign journalist who has done extraordinary work while overcoming tremendous obstacles that contribute to the enrichment, understanding, or advancement of people or issues in the African Diaspora.

“Alphonse, one of Haiti’s most respected investigative journalists, is not only a fearless journalist but a brave soul. He survived a shooting attack in 2022 that left him wounded in both arms on his way to work at a Port-au-Prince radio station. Now a University of Michigan Knight-Wallace Fellow, he boldly continues to heal and continues his work as the News Editor for Le Nouvelliste and Information Director at Magik9.”
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You can see a video detailing Alphonse’s story and journey to Wallace House here. 

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